Insubstantial pageants

Genius. And a wish come true.



This just turned up last night. For a modest subscription (much less than a coffee-a-day), the Wooden Jigsaw Puzzle Club will lend you two Artifact puzzles at a time, to be returned as quickly or as slowly as you like. If pieces are missing, they will replace them. When you've done, they will give you a postage label to print out, and you send the puzzles on to the next subscriber. The whole inner site is locked (they send a swiftly disappearing link to your email), and if you wish to be pseudonymous, your name will be hidden. The USPS will collect the outgoing parcel from your doorstep, if desired.

Off go the cloud-capped towers, leaving not a rack behind.

Whee!

Like the old Netflix, the puzzle club promises to send the highest-ranked pairing on your wishlist that's available.  I have no idea how that will work out in practice, but there are scads of alluring choices. Artifact has chosen the pairings (if you like that, you'll like this), but fortunately I like a large swath of their taste, which tends to be fantastical.

Bring on the Bosch!

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